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About the Role
Peer Support services are peer-delivered services with a rehabilitation and recovery focus, designed to promote skills for coping with and managing behavioral health symptoms while facilitating the utilization of natural resources and the enhancement of recovery-oriented principles. Peer support uses trauma-informed, non-clinical assistance to achieve long-term recovery from a behavioral health disorder.
Responsibilities
- Assistance seeking and obtaining benefits and entitlements, food, shelter, permanent housing.
- Assisting recipients in participating in shared decision making.
- Use Peer Bridgers to assist with linkages to and systems navigation within behavioral health and allied human services systems to access appropriate care.
- Benefits advisement and planning.
- Development of psychiatric advance directives (PAD).
- Assistance advocating for self-directed services.
- Companionship and modeling of recovery lifestyle, including participation in recovery activities.
- Raising the awareness of existing services, pathways to recovery and helping a person to remove barriers that exist for access to them.
- Interim visits with individuals and/or their families after discharge from Hospital Emergency Rooms, Detox Units or Inpatient Psychiatric Units to facilitate community tenure and increased readiness.
- Outreach is a face-to-face service with a patient and/or their family provided by clinical staff or a peer advocate for the purpose of increasing motivation to participate in clinically indicated treatment for chemical dependence.
- Assist selecting and utilizing self-directed recovery tools such as Relapse Prevention Planning.
- Assist selecting and utilizing the things that bring a sense of passion, purpose and meaning into his/her life and coaching the person as they identify barriers to engaging in these activities.
- Assist individuals to help connect to natural supports that enhance the quality and security of life.
- Connecting individuals to “warm lines.”
- Connections to self-help groups in the community.
- Recovery education and counseling for individuals and their family members.
- One to one peer support.
- Person centered goal planning that incorporates life areas such as community connectedness, physical wellness, spirituality, employment, self-help.
- Assisting with skills development that guides people towards a more independent life.
- Individuals in continuing care may receive counseling or peer services once per month.
- Learning and practicing new skills.
- Helping peers self-monitor their progress.
- Modeling effective coping skills.
- Bridging from jail or prison to an individual’s/family’s home.
- Bridging from institutions (e.g. inpatient or residential facilities) to an individual’s/family’s home.
- Bridging from general hospitals to an individual’s/family’s home.
- Bridging from an individual’s/family’s home to the community.
- Arrangements for appropriate services are discussed and made with the individual/family, their significant others and/or family prior to the planned discharge date.
- Providing companionship when an individual or family in an emergency room or crisis unit or preparing to be admitted to detox, residential or other service to provide non-clinical support.
- Providing peer support in the individual’s/family’s home or in the community to support them before a crisis or relapse.
- Developing crisis diversion plans or relapse prevention plans.
Requirements
- Clean driving record for 3 years is required.
- Must maintain certification requirements.
Skills
- Communication
- Organization
- Crisis Management/Composure
- Time Management
- Confidentiality
- Ethical Conduct
Location
- Ogdensburg, NY
Work Type
- Full Time
- Part-time
Experience Level
- “Lived” / relevant experience
Education Level
- High school diploma or equivalent
Salary/Compensations
- $16.50 - $20.50 Hourly
About the Company
- Our Mission and Vision are supported by a foundation of excellence.